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..my dear Flickr friends I will be away from 8 Dec 15 to 11 Jan 16.
Thank you so much for the support and encouragement given to me during 2015! It is really appreciated!
I won't be able to comment on your work during my hols back home in Sri Lanka! I wish everyone happy holidays and Merry Christmas in advance!
Cormorants
Masirah Island, Oman.
Used a Sigma 150-500mm heavy lens on a ball-headed Tripod. Taken from a distance as you can see the focal length.
Thank you for your visits, faves and comments. Constructive criticism and suggestions are most welcome!
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A male yellow-headed blackbird (Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus, Icteridae) flying over his cattail marsh habitat.
Uihlein Waterfowl Production Area
Winnebago County, Wisconsin
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Grey heron-Héron cendré (Ardea cinerea), Auvergne, France.
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Bring back a few precious memories with Neil Diamond:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVLonpBtkH0
If you have a strong, sincere desire to live each day to its fullest, you can make it happen.
You won't find it dawdling around the house for the first three hours of your day.
Each ho-hum minute that passes is a minute of our lives that could have been used to change our lives, perhaps even the world.
Grey heron-Héron cendré (Ardea cinerea), Auvergne, France.
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"A sailor is an artist whose medium is the wind.
Live passionately, even if it kills you,
because something is going to kill you anyway."
―Webb Chiles
20 years from now you will be more disappointed
by the things that you didn’t do
than by the ones you did do.
So throw off the bowlines.
Sail away from the safe harbor.
Catch the trade winds in your sails.
Explore. Dream. Discover.
~Mark Twain
One of my simple pleasures is observing birds just being themselves. I wait patiently and so often it pays off with a scene like this, the ducks clearly enjoying their freedom, their companions, and the environment. If ducks could smile and laugh, this is what it looks like.
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“You don't take a photograph, you make it”
~Ansel Adams.
Midas, in Greek and Roman legend, a king of Phrygia, known for his foolishness and greed. ... For his kind treatment of Silenus Midas was rewarded by Dionysus with a wish. The king wished that all he touched might turn to gold, but when his food became gold and he nearly starved to death as a result, he realized his error.
The ocean inspires
the sunset calms
and
the salty air heals.
Pelicans are not like eagles which fly alone. They are gregarious birds and travel in flocks. They hunt together and also breed in colonies. I have seen more than 30 in a flock. It's a beautiful sight to watch a flock of them gliding just above the ocean for miles.
Pelicans are the heaviest of flying birds. They have an unusually high number of secondary flight feathers – 30 to 35 to be precise.
A male red-winged blackbird (Agelaius phoeniceus, Icteridae) chases a great egret (Ardea alba, Ardeidae) at a pond in Oshkosh, Wisconsin.
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A great egret (Ardea alba, Ardeidae) flies by over Lake Butte des Morts at at Terrell's Island Preserve in Winnebago County, Wisconsin,
Winnebago County, Wisconsin
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The soft sounds of Norah Jones:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbjZPFBD6JU
"The sea, once it casts its spell,
holds one in its net of wonder forever."
Jacques Cousteau
Dark and light
striking
each other,
vividly etching wild colors
through the horizon.
The charm of sunset
makes me want
to scurry home.”
― Tara Estacaan
“To my mind, a picture should be something pleasant,
cheerful, and pretty, yes pretty!
There are too many unpleasant things in life as it is
without creating still more of them.”
― Pierre-Auguste Renoir
A sandhill crane (Antigone canadensis, Gruidae) in flight at Uihlein Waterfowl Production Area, Winnebago County, Wisconsin.
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“A gush of bird-song,
a patter of dew,
A cloud,
and a rainbow’s warning,
Suddenly sunshine and perfect blue–
An April day in the morning.”
― Harriet Prescott Spofford
Own image and textures
March came in that winter
like the meekest and mildest of lambs,
bringing days that were crisp and golden and tingling,
each followed by a frosty pink twilight
which gradually lost itself in an elfland of moonshine.
~L.M. Montgomery
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Grey heron-Héron cendré (Ardea cinerea), Auvergne, France.
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Cycling along beside this canal, I was taking photos with my phone one-handed, because if I stopped, all the birds would fly away. These four Asian Openbills were a little more timid than the rest.
A male red-winged blackbird (Agelaius phoeniceus, Icteridae) in a bright yellow sky.
Uihlein Waterfowl Production Area
Winnebago County, Wisconsin
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...and Spirit Lake many years before the 1980 eruption! Old Kodachrome slide by my dad in 1958! Digital scan and treatment by me. Thanks dad. HSS
An osprey (Pandion haliaetus, Pandionidae) on the prowl for fish over Lake Delton.
Village of Lake Delton, Town of Delton, Sauk County, Wisconsin.
The geomorphological region is known as the Dells of the Wisconsin River or more simply the Dells of Wisconsin. The area is also called the Wisconsin Dells referring more generally to the water-based theme parks of the region as well as name of a village that exists where Adams County, Columbia County, Juneau County and Sauk County meet.
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Doesn't get any better than this with Ella and Louie:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHAfhPrrKHA
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Shot taken at Yamuna Ghat Near Kashmiri Gate, Delhi
An old man take care of all kind of cleanliness in the comfort of the migratory birds and as well as floating the bad materilals in the yamuna river he collecting the bad materials from river, reflecting the blue sky in the water that looks beautiful in scenery of this nature
To me, photography is an art of observation.
It’s about finding something interesting in an ordinary place…
I’ve found it has little to do with the things you see
and everything to do with the way you see them.
~Elliott Erwitt
Great tit-Mésange charbonnière (Parus major), Auvergne, France.
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Reason for the dramatic sunrises and sunsets this week:
If you’ve looked up at the San Diego sky during the early morning or late afternoon over the past week or so, chances are you’ve seen some spectacular sunrises and sunsets.
For the last several days, the sky above America’s Finest City has boasted an incredibly colorful array of shades – from glowing oranges and yellows in the morning, to vibrant pinks, reds and purples in the evenings.
But, why, exactly are those sunrises and sunsets so breathtaking lately?
According to NBC 7 San Diego’s meteorologist Jodi Kodesh, the recent amazing sunsets are a result of warm, moist air flowing into San Diego from the south.
“Sunlight consists of many different colors in the spectrum. Blue has the shortest wavelength, which is why we see the most of it. At sunrise and sunset, however, when the sun angle is low, the blue lights get scattered easily, allowing more of the red and oranges to reach our eyes,” explained Kodesh.
“It’s the clouds that are coming at us from the south that are acting as the culprit to the scattering of the blue light. We can thank them for the pretty sunrises and sunsets!” she added.
Kodesh says these views are typical for this time of year – at least in San Diego.
"We have the real high clouds – that’s one part of the recipe. We have a very low sun angle, so we have sunrise and sunset where the sun angle is low, and then we have that scattering of the light waves and we end up with the red and the yellow and the orange colors," Kodesh explained